REPATRIATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 March 1920, Page 7

REPATRIATION.

NEW PLYMOUTH COMMITTEE. A meeting of the New Plymouth Repatria-1 tion Committee was held last evening. Present: Messrs. C. H. Weston (chairman), W. J. Chsney, T. Furlong, C. Carter, F. W. Oto-y, R. 1. Clarke, E. Whittle, T. C. List, J. R. Rowlands, H. R. Cattley, F. Havtnell, and the secretary (Mr. A. S. Allen). The executive's action in granting the following applications was authorised: Two furniture loans of £SO, and a business roan of £SO, approved by the Waitara Committee ; and in recommending for approval an application by two ex-soldiers for £6OO for the purchase of a business.

Tho unemployment register showed that there were three men requiring work—clerical, milking on shares, taxi-driving, and light work. The Ministerial Repatriation Board wrote stating It was of opinion that it was premature to reduce the personnel of committees, and expressing the hope that members of the New Plymouth committee would continue In office for another three or four months.

Applications for loans were recommended as follow: £6OO (by two brothers) for the purchase of dairy cows; £3OO for the purchase of heifers; and £3OO for the purchase of an interest in a business. Furniture loans, two of £SO and two of £25, were granted, as was a loan of £SO for the purchase of a horse and plough. Training subsidles were granted in respect of three men, one at boot repairing, one carpentry or painting, and the other a commercial course at the Technical College. Payment or three students' fees in connection with correspondence courses was approved.